Six policemen sacked on charge of embezzling seized drug for reselling
Six policemen of Bangkok's Bovornmongkol Police Station have been dismissed from civil service while the investigation into their alleged wrongdoing of failing to submit the seized drugs to the police's evidence storage after making a drug bust, Metropolitan Police commissioner Pol Lt-General Sanit Mahathaworn said on Friday.
The six officers were also accused of selling the drug back to pushers to sell on Bangkok streets, Sanit added.
Samit also signed a temporary transfer order for the six policemen's two bosses, Bovornmongkol superintendent Pol Colonel Wiradol Tabtimdee and inspector Pol Lt Colonel Suparap Phetcharat. The two were seconded to inactive posts at the Metropolital Police Bureau for 30 days from Friday onward.
The six officers, including deputy inspector Police Captain Supat Prajonghat, were already in custody and their arrest warrants for a charge of having drugs in possession were issued.
The sacking followed Metropolitan Police Area 7 team's arrest of Supat at the precinct on Thursday afternoon along with 13,000 Yaba pills, 100 grams of crystal meth or "ice" and some ketamine that were found in a backpack. Supat was implicated by two drug suspects who had previously been arrested in Soi Charan Sawidwong 35 along with 1,400 Yaba pills and 100 grams of "ice".
